081438P.pdf   02/02/2009  Alfonso Davenport  v.  Univ. of AR Bd. of Trustees
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-1438
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Pine Bluff   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Melloy, Circuit Judge, and
   Magnuson, District Judge]
   Civil case - civil rights. District court did not err in granting
   university's motion for summary judgment on plaintiff's claim that the
   university retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment
   rights when it hired another candidate for a vacant position; while
   plaintiff's comments in 1999 were protected speech, there was no
   evidence to show that the protected speech was a substantial or
   motivating factor in the decision to select another candidate for the
   position; the other speech plaintiff identified was not protected speech
   because it was given in his capacity as an employee.